- Good Morning from the Zundelsite:
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- It is true that a mistrial in the Holocaust Heresy Trial
in Germany has been declared.
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- That does not mean, apparently, that a second attempt
will not be made by the German government which has agitated for two decades
to bring Ernst Zundel to trial and sentence him, come hell or high water!
- A brief comment: Apparently, the matter of a "mandatory"
attorney is customary in Germany. This is, as far as I can tell, a court-appointed
"watch dog" attorney who has the power to steer the defense in
a direction that pleases the court. If this impression on my part is wrong,
I would be grateful for a correction.
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- Here is my translation as best as I can do it, of the
brief news item I received this morning from someone who was present in
court.
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- As expected, Dr. Meinerzhagen has kept to his strategy
of last week. All motions presented by the defense were declared as having
no basis (!) and were rejected, and that meant that Mrs. Sylvia Stolz,
the mandatory attorney (who was originally agreed to by the court), has
lost her mandate
- (to be Ernst Zundel's attorney).
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- Since the court insists on a mandatory defense attorney,
and since Dr. Schaller was also removed by the court, a new mandatory attorney
has now been found who has the confidence of Ernst, and is acceptable by
the court.
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- The trial was ended today after two-and-a-half hours.
A new court date could only be set for mid- to end of February, since,
naturally, the new mandatory attorney needs time to work through the mountain
of documents.
- The media, especially radio and TV, were sparsely present
today, but the court room was packed, just like last week.
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- Security provisions were the same, which caused a delay
of 35 minutes. In the courtroom there was triple the number of police
to prevent applause as well as evidence of disagreement and to remove the
"trouble makers" from the court room - which wasn't necessary,
by the way.
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- Erwartungsgemäß hat der Vors. Richter am Landgericht
Dr. Meinerzhagen seine linie der vergangenen Woche beibehalten. Sämtliche
Anträge der Verteidigung wurden als "unbegründet"(!)
zurückgewiesen und damit war auch Frau RAin Sylvia Stolz ihr Mandat
als Pflichtverteidigerin los.
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- Da das Gericht auf einem Pflichtverteidiger besteht,
Dr. Schaller, Wien, ebenfalls vom Gericht abgelehnt wurde / wird, muß
nun ein neuer Pflichtverteidiger gefunden werden, der sowohl das Vertrauen
von Ernst Zündel hat als auch dem Gerichr "genehm" ist.
- Der Prozeß wurde heute nach knapp zweinhalb Stunden
ausgesetzt. Die Wiederaufnahme dürfte frühestens Mitte / Ende
Februar erfolgen, da sich ein neuer Pflichtverteidiger logischerweise in
die umfangreichen Dokumente erst einmal einarbeiten muß.
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- Die Medien, vor allem Fernsehen und Rundfunk, waren heute
schwach vertreten! - Der gleiche Saal wie in der Vorwoche war indes wieder
voll.
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- Die Sicherheitsmaßnahmen waren die gleichen, was
erneute zu einer Verzögerung von 35 Minuten führte; im Saal war
die dreifache Anzahl vonm Polizisten, um Beifalls- wie Mißfallenskundgebungen
zu unterbinden und die "Störer" aus dem Saal zu schaffen,
was indes NICHT erforderlich wurde.
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